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Poster:	drvon	Date:	December 03, 2008 01:47:17pm
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Flip Book Format

What I'd like to know, though, is what is the name of the program that creates the flip books. And, how can I convert pdf files into flip books like yours.

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Poster:	rkumar	Date:	December 04, 2008 06:48:09pm
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Flip Book Format

I updated the documentation with a "How the Book Reader Works" section that talks about the images that the new flip book uses. http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader

The flipbooks aren't created from the pdfs but from a stack of cropped and deskewed images. This image stack is used to create the flipbook, the pdf, and djvu file.

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Poster:	rkumar	Date:	December 04, 2008 10:53:10pm
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Flip Book Format

Also, to convert existing pdfs into a stack of images for use with the flip book, you can use ImageMagick or GhostScript.

You can use the ImageMagick 'convert' command to do this:

convert input.pdf page%03d.jpg

You can learn more about ImageMagick at http://www.imagemagick.org/

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Poster:	brewster	Date:	December 06, 2008 03:55:50pm
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Flip Book Format

we would like you to upload your PDF's to the archive. We are working to expand our PDF deriver so that any pdf uploaded will be able to be a flip book (and embeddable).

Please upload!

-brewster

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Poster:	Alexis007	Date:	January 04, 2013 11:57:11pm
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Flip Book Format

There are many similar programs, such as the flash flipbook software of 3D Page Flip Standard is a good reference for you. I have seen my friend to use this tool, it's really easy to convert PDF to flip book and make book with 3D effect. 3dpageflip.com is the website for your reference.